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Aboriginal art prints from Turkey Creek -

Madigan Thomas

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Aboriginal artist, Madigan Thomas is a member of the Warmun (Turkey Creek) community from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She began painting in the mid 1980’s, along with well known aboriginal artist Queenie McKenzie and other Warmun women.

Madigan Thomas has a clearly defined style and uses silhouetted landforms outlined in fine dots. She was a finalist in the 1994 National Aboriginal Art Award, the most prestigious indigenous art award in Australia held annually at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin. Madigan also showed in a group exhibition of Warmun women held in 1995 at Canberra’s Australian Girls Own Gallery.

Madigan Thomas first began printmaking in 1995 in collaboration with printmaker Theo Tremblay.


subjects and themes

Cockatoos, Turkey Creek landscape.


collections

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.


exhibitions

Group exhibitions

1994, The Eleventh National Aboriginal Art Award Exhibition, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.

1994 11th NATSI Art Award, Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.

1995, Paintings by Warmun Women, Australian Girls Own Gallery, Kingston, ACT.

1995 Paintings by Warmun Women, AGOG, Canberra.

1996 Figures in the Land National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.


bibliography

McCulloch S, Contemporary Aboriginal Art: a guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture Allen & Unwin 1999

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region
East Kimberley

state
WA

community
Warmun - Turkey Creek

language bloc
Djerag

language
Gidja

outstation
Purnululu, Bungle Bungle

art centre
Waringarri Aboriginal Arts

medium
Painting, ochres on canvas, gum resin fixative, material culture items, limited edition prints


DENNIS NONA CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITION


Sesserae: New Works by Dennis Nona

Dennis Nona's Sesserae

Paris, London, Sydney, Brisbane

Dennis Nona is widely acknowledged as one of, if not the most, important living Torres Strait Islander artist.

This exhibition of installations, limited edition linocuts, etchings and cast bronze sculptures showcases the artist's most recent work.

PARIS
The Australian Embassy
6 April - 8 June, 2006

LONDON
Rebecca Hossack Gallery
35 Windmill Street,
LONDON (Dates TBA)

SYDNEY
31 Lamrock Avenue
BONDI BEACH, NSW
30 March - 16 April, 2006

BRISBANE
Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art
BRISBANE, QLD
3 June - 10 July 2005

OTHER EXHIBITION VENUES
Other Australian and overseas venues and dates to be announced.
Dennis Nona's Bronze Dugong

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